most botanical professors, or at lease
have a much larger liberty in the matter
of text books & time. Dr. Goodale
said he would review your books in
the Gazette over his own name. The copy
has not come in yet, & I fear that it will
not come, owing to his many duties. In
that case I shall write one myself.
Dr. Goodale expressed himself to me as
being very well pleased with it.
You are to be congratulated upon your
success in giving us a lift from the mire.
Can you not follow this up by more
physiological work in the shape of notes to
the Gazette? I am trying more & more to
switch it off in that direction, but physiologists
either don't seem to believe it or don't
want to contribute. I would like fully half
of every Gazette to be devoted to physiology,
with the prospect of that being its sole [?]
some day, for systematic work is more
decidedly unproductive & the young botanists
of the country should have their thoughts turned
into other channels than finding new stations,
pressing & drying & exchanging, with the [dim?]
hope [ever?] before them of finding something
to which their name can be attached. I would
like to make an onslaught upon all this
old [?] work, but don't dare to, for if the
old school of systematists drop me [sic.], who
is there to take me up? The change will
have to be gradually & cautiously effected.
I made a very pleasant acquaintance
